Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are only several moments when it seems obvious that Momma is DeVito's directing debut. The movie starts off at a breakneck pace that it just barely manages to maintain. But just when you think that DeVito is running out of energy, he comes up with even a sharper sight gag, or Stu Silver's script comes up with another great line...
...doesn't the same show, however bizarre, get old after several viewings? Piro, who has seen more than a decade's worth of Rocky Horror, says that many theaters try to maintain interest by holding special event nights...
Finally, while the role of the CIA analyst who will be part of the research team of course must be greatly circumscribed, as it has been presented the project would seem unobjectionable. The CIA's task is to collect and analyze data and to help maintain American interests abroad. The K-School's mission is to study and help improve the operations of government. It would be foolish to maintain that the CIA has not acted objectionably in the past. But it has done so at the behest of leaders who failed to understand that America's interests abroad almost...
...said that although "with proper treatment bulemia can be handled," she added that she is uncertain victims can maintain their success. The key to success, she said, is realizing that "the average American female was not meant to be a size three...
...release of Garay's testimony, D'Aubuisson mounted a counteroffensive. The thin, chain-smoking soldier turned politician rejected all suggestions that he was involved in the killing. Claiming to have been out of the country when Romero was slain, D'Aubuisson said, "Duarte is accusing me to maintain a smoke screen to detract attention from the crisis in El Salvador...